ViewsMonday, February 23, 2015 - 12:15pmYear of the Sheep, Century of the Dragon? China and a Brave New World OrderBEIJING -- Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all too solid and nothing like the embattled nation you hear about in the Western media, with...Read more

ViewsTuesday, December 16, 2014 - 11:30amEast vs. Rest: China's Eurasian Integration vs. the West's Empire of ChaosNovember 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers of export goods weighing more than 1,000 tons left a massive warehouse complex heading for...Read more

ViewsMonday, October 6, 2014 - 7:15amCan China and Russia Squeeze Washington Out of Eurasia?A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is being seriously discussed at the highest levels in Beijing and Moscow, and viewed with interest in Berlin, New...Read more

ViewsMonday, May 19, 2014 - 6:45amThe Birth of a Eurasian Century: Russia and China Do PipelineistanHONG KONG -- A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the Eurasian land mass -- at the expense of the United States. And no wonder Washington is anxious. That alliance is already a done...Read more

ViewsWednesday, August 28, 2013 - 1:19pmObama Set for Holy Tomahawk WarThe ''responsibility to protect'' (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ''responsibility to attack'' (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administration says so.Read more

ViewsMonday, October 22, 2012 - 8:47amTime Is Tight to Produce a Worthy US DreamLOS ANGELES - It's tight. It's awfully tight. But way beyond demented pollmania permeating every nook and cranny of the multibillionaire election circus - coupled with the torrential vomiting of the Spin Machine scary monsters and super freaks - these are the stark facts.Read more

ViewsFriday, June 15, 2012 - 8:36amDrone Me Down on the Killing FloorLord knows, I should'a been gone Lord knows, I should'a been gone And I wouldn't've been here, down on the killin' floor - Howlin' Wolf, Killing FloorRead more